Relish and snack

In my new pickled pantry cookbook is a recipe for "Zucchini pickle relish". So, I started it late this afternoon as it takes 12 hours in salt to get ready for pickling! I love relish on just about anything and this one comes very highly recommended! So, I had bought some zucchinis at the Farmers Market last weekend as we didn't plant any this time around! And got them all chopped up with the peppers from our garden and an onion from the store! Gordon said there is something in the garden like a squash or pumpkin, and with it raining today I didn't go check! Also, we just finished a late night snack of Greek Gods yogurt and granola! Gordon would rather have ice cream, but this is what we have for now! Blessings!

tomatoes

Gordon's garden is really producing some beautiful tomatoes for salads! I made a "big" salad(remember on Seinfeld that Elaine was always ordering a big salad??). Well, that was only part of our supper, but the main theme! The tomatoes are shaped like tear drops that we are getting now, not Roma and not grape size. But they are tasty! Blessings!

pickled salad

I found this recipe at foodiewithfamily.com last week. So, with this being my weekend off, I decided to make it. I went to the farmer's market on Saturday to get an onion and some cucumbers, as I had the peppers. So, here is the recipe: 2 cucumbers sliced into matchsticks, 1 red onions sliced very thinly and matchsticks, 2 red peppers sliced into matchsticks(I used the purple one I had on hand and 2 red ones), plus I added 1 hot hungarian pepper sliced thinly! In a saucepan combine 2 cups of water, 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of apple cider vinegar, 8 cloves of garlic, and 1/3 yellow mustard seeds. Bring this to a rolling boil until the sugar is dissolved and then add 1 cup of ice,

let this cool till the ice is melted and pour over the veggies that have been packed into the jars. I got 3 pints and 2 jelly size jars filled with a cup left over. With the hot hungarian pepper in the mix, it's pretty hot!! But I'm thinking it will be good over beef sandwiches or pork chops or just by itself! Blessings!

new cookbook

By now most of you know that I LOVE cookbooks!!! It's my thing, others love shoes,or purses or scrapbooking, mine is cookbooks! This one I found at Menards while waiting for Gordon!! He never said a thing as he knows it's useless!! It is all on pickling! I have one on canning "Food in Jars" which was recently published, but this one is all pickling! I'm pretty excited as tomorrow is Farmers market day and I can get a few things to try out the new recipes!! I'm thinking about red cabbage apple relish, zucchini relish and kimchi! So with my new book in hand, I'll be there early to get the goods and home to pickle! Blessings!

three bean salad

Tomorrow's demo will be three bean salad that I saw on sixsistersstuff.com last week! I tweak it for the store and ended up with a pretty tasty demo! If you look at their recipe, it calls for a tomato, onion, and green pepper chopped, but I used Rotel instead as I didn't have the time for all the chopping!! I doubled the recipe for the public as they usually love the salads we have for the home cook and the recipe for them to take home! I wasn't able to take pictures of the salad, so sorry!! It is a pretty salad and would look so nice on a potluck table or picnic table! Please stop by and say "hi" to Mary as she will be the one serving it! Blessings!!

peppers

I have not taken a photo of Gordon's garden this year. It is smaller than any garden he has had before because he didn't grow any corn, pumpkins and didn't go wild with tomato plants like before(last yr he had 75 plants). But boy do we have a bumper crop of peppers and what to do with all of them! We have some Hungarian hot peppers, purple beauties, regular green peppers and a few jalapenas! I made bread salad for supper tonight with peppers, if you read any original recipes for bread salad, they don't have peppers, but I need to eat these beauties up!! Blessings!

Aren't they beautiful!!! I just love the color!!! So dark and shiny!!

peach jam

Last Thursday I bought a 1/2 bushel of Colorado peaches from Holly! They were pretty tasty and needed to have something done with them before they went bad. So Saturday morning I got up at 5:50a.m. after not falling to sleep until 12:45a.m. to work on the peaches. I got the canner up from the basement and set to work on peaches. I canned 7 pints of peaches in light syrup, 5 pints of peach jam and 2 pies for the freezer. I forget to get the jam out for breakfast or snacks or pb and j sandwiches as a general rule after I make the jam, go figure! Gordon isn't much for eating jam unless I put it on his toast or biscuits. But our neighbor Joel loves jam on crackers for a snack

and he gets quite a few jars from us throughout the year, he's a great neighbor!! So, here's to jam for Joel and Sharon!!! Blessings!